07 July 2012

GZA: ‘Liquid Swords’ The Chessbox (2012)


Neither the first Wu solo effort nor even GZA’s first solo album, Liquid Swords has to be one of the best (as well as one of the most famous) LPs from the Wu-Tang Clan camp and now it’s getting a special edition re-release. The LP saw legendary mic manipulator GZA gave it large on his favourite topics over thirteen of RZA’s trademark haunting loops and crisp breaks with snatches of ridiculously over-the-top dialogue from Shogun Assassin providing a suitably doomy linking motif amongst the tales of urban gloom. And the…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

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